How can I protect myself from unfair redundancy?

What do you do if you feel there's is no impartiality in the selection process for redundancies? Photograph: i love images/Alamy

Twice a week we publish the problems that will feature in a forthcoming Dear Jeremy advice column in the Saturday Guardian so that readers can offer their own advice and suggestions. We then print the best of your comments alongside Jeremy's own insights. Here is the latest dilemma – what are your thoughts?

I have worked for my boss across three companies for the past 12 years. Whenever she has moved to another company she has taken me with her, to the point that I wasn't even interviewed for my current position. I have exceeded my objectives within the organisation every year.

Our working relationship has broken down in the past 18 months as a new organisational structure has started to be implemented. This has led to my boss taking over some of my activities to beef up her own position.

She is one of three directors in the company. She has now instigated a redundancy process. The business case is not factually correct and the selection criteria is very subjective – plus as a director, she is in charge of the process and the decision-making.

There is no impartiality, independent audit or transparency in the selection process. I have been marginalised in my job and ignored, and the way she is still interacting with other members of the team (who are also under threat) would suggest that this process is a sham to get rid of me. What can I do to protect myself?

Do you need advice on a work issue? For Jeremy's and readers' help, send a brief email to dear.jeremy@theguardian.com. Please note that he is unable to answer questions of a legal nature or reply personally.